Recovering the worlds of my Jewish family
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AJGS-VIC committee member, Yolande McNicoll, PhD is fortunate to have had a proud grandmother who was eager to share her family story.
In this talk, Yolande will illustrate how she turned these memories into a broad, well-documented family tree, reconstructing a migration journey that began with disaster in 1831, in Rogozno, Poland.
Using genealogical and other historical sources ,and training in history, languages and paleography (the study of old handwriting), Yolande uncovers the 40 year progress of her Fink forebears to Melbourne (via Geelong, London, Guernsey and Berlin) from the old Kingdom of Poland.
Along the way the research journey has thrown up many surprises that she is keen to share.
In this talk, Yolande will illustrate how she turned these memories into a broad, well-documented family tree, reconstructing a migration journey that began with disaster in 1831, in Rogozno, Poland.
Using genealogical and other historical sources ,and training in history, languages and paleography (the study of old handwriting), Yolande uncovers the 40 year progress of her Fink forebears to Melbourne (via Geelong, London, Guernsey and Berlin) from the old Kingdom of Poland.
Along the way the research journey has thrown up many surprises that she is keen to share.